Stodoły, Rybnik

For other places with the same name, see Stodoły.

Stodoły
Rybnik District
Manor house
Location of Stodoły within Rybnik
Coordinates: 50.157206°N 18.483113°E / 50.157206; 18.483113
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
County/City	Rybnik
Population  (2013)
• Total	600
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	(+48) 032

Stodoły [stɔˈdɔwɨ] (lit. barns, German: Stodoll) is a district of Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. In the late 2013 it had about 600 inhabitants.[1]

History

The village could have existed before 1258.

After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite 260 out of 393 voters in Stodoły voted in favour of joining Poland, against 131 opting for staying in Germany.[2] Nevertheless it stayed a part of Germany, on the border with Poland. It was renamed as "Hochlinden" after campaign of cleansing "Non-German" place names in 1936.^[citation needed] It was a place of a Nazi false flag operation (as part of Operation Himmler) on August 31, 1939.[3][4][5] After the war it became a part of Poland.

In years 1973-1977 it was a part of gmina Chwałęcice and was amalgamated with Rybnik on February 1, 1977.[6]

References

1. "Stodoły" (in Polish). rybnik.eu. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
2. "Results of the Upper Silesia plebiscite in Rybnik County" (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
3. "Prowokacja hitlerowska we wsi Stodoły to jeden z zapomnianych epizodów II wojny światowej" (in Polish). Dziennik Zachodni. 2007-08-31. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
4. Martin Allen, Himmler's Secret War: The Covert Peace Negotiations of Heinrich Himmler, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0-7867-1708-4, Google Print, p.51
5. Christopher J. Ailsby, The Third Reich Day by Day, Zenith Imprint, 2001, ISBN 0-7603-1167-6, Google Print, p.112
6. Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji, Gospodarki Terenowej i Ochrony Środowiska z dnia 25 stycznia 1977 r. w sprawie zmiany granic niektórych miast w województwie katowickim., Dz. U., 1977, vol. 3, No. 15